Reckless man of entertainment who started from a novel

Chapter 363 The reversal that came to an abrupt end! 【Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a full subscription】

Now the entire network is discussing whether Li Xiang will win eight games in a row and win all the championship titles.

Recipient of the highest honor ever in a short story event?
On the road of eight wins and eight wins, the third track... the fun has just begun.

Whether it is Ji Liqun, director of the National Library of China, or Wei Yuan, head of the Cultural and Entertainment Office, they are all happy to see it succeed, because Li Xiang, a catfish, has entered the backwater of the literary world, and in a turbulent environment, more will definitely be born. better works.

Zhong Shurong's Skyfall is a good example.

But the third track was different. With the halo of defeating Zhong Shurong, most of Li Xiang still felt that he could not be tough, but chose to endure the calm for a while.Let's see what happens next.

If Li Xiang really had the determination to win eight battles and eight wins, he would only have one chance.

And his opponent still has five chances to fail.

Do it all at once, second time tired, third time exhausted.

Let the bullets fly for a while first, which is the consensus of most people who fantasize about stepping on Li Xiang's position.

One o'clock in the afternoon, just past the time.

Countless netizens are standing in front of the computer, constantly refreshing the official website.
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[Come out, go and see. 】
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[Necklace, the title is a necklace. 】
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[Sword God is going to play tricks again. 】

Everyone called for friends and clicked on Li Xiang's profile picture to enter his personal page to read.

[The third track - the price]

【Li Xiang: Necklace】

[The beautiful and attractive women in the world are all born in a family of small employees, as if due to a mistake of fate. The one we are going to talk about now is exactly the case.

She has no dowry assets, no hope, no way for a man of money and status to know her, understand her, love her, and marry her; members married.

Can't be particular about dress, she's plain, unfortunately like a degraded woman, because women have no class, no family distinction, their beauty, their charm and their allure are for them to do. For birth and family background.

Their natural vigilance, outstanding instincts, and soft hearts constitute their only rank, and they can raise folk girls to the same level as noble ladies...]

In fact, the story is very simple -

Mathilde is a beautiful woman, and her husband is an ordinary clerk.

Although her status is low, she is obsessed with luxurious aristocratic life. In order to attend a grand party, she uses 400 francs saved by her husband to make a dress and borrow a beautiful necklace from her friend.

At the party at the minister's house, Mathilde stole the limelight with her outstanding demeanor, and her vanity was fully satisfied, but she lost the necklace she borrowed. In this case, She had no choice but to hide it from her friends and slowly compensate.

Since then, the couple have spent 10 years living frugally.

During this difficult accumulation process, Mathilde's hands became rough and her face became old.

Later, she accidentally learned that the necklace she lost was just a cheap artificial diamond necklace, but what she compensated was a real diamond necklace.

In this way, Mathilde worked hard for 10 years in vain.

Maupassant's short stories are always like this, they stop abruptly, giving people infinite blank space.

The two protagonists of this novel, Mathilde and Loisel, are also very interesting.

Mathilde has neither luxurious clothes nor sparkling jewelry, but she is keen on attending high-class evening parties, and eager to experience the daily life of noble women, so she does not hesitate to invest heavily.

As a result, he accidentally lost the necklace, and thus began a ten-year debt-paying career.

Her rosy fingernails were worn away, and she had become a daring woman of poverty, so strong and so rough that she greeted Madame Forestier without being recognized.

The most ironic plot is the last sentence of the novel "Ouch. My poor Mathilde. My string is fake. It is worth five hundred francs at most."

Mathilde worked hard to repay the debt for ten years, but was told that she had borrowed a fake necklace. It must be difficult for her to accept such a fact, but it really happened to her.

Maupassant used this to satirize those women who love vanity, and at the same time give them the evil results caused by their love of vanity.

And the male protagonist Loisel, as a small clerk of the Ministry of Education, will lift the lid of the pot when eating, and say with satisfaction: "Ah, what a delicious stew. There is nothing better in the world than this thing."

His words were felt by most of the small employees at that time. They may have great ambitions, but at the same time they are satisfied with their own living conditions and will try their best to like everything in their lives.

When he has an invitation to an evening party from a high-class person, he will have some vanity, thinking that it is a very honorable and proud thing to get an invitation, and at the same time, this mood urgently needs to be affirmed by others.

This is another manifestation of the narrow psychology of small staff groups.

When the necklace was lost and needed to buy a new one, Loisel signed a lot of loan contracts, promised a lot of conditions that were enough to make a fortune, and dealt with loan sharks and all kinds of money lenders.

He ruined his whole life for the rest of his life, no matter whether he could repay it or not, he took the risk of signing the IOU indiscriminately.

His behavior is also the behavior of most people. When people have nowhere to go, he will make a fool of whatever path is in front of him.

Loisel signed the IOUs randomly because he could get through the current difficulty first, and the consequences of these IOUs were out of his consideration for the time being.

His approach faithfully reflects the behavior of most people and is a typical representative of typical characters.

Two typical characters are led by a string of necklaces, which is also the brilliance of Maupassant's writing style.

Because "The Necklace" adopts the method of describing people with things, it takes the necklace as a main line, starts from its multiple relationships with the characters, and uses it to firmly tie the behavior, language and psychological activities of the characters, so that readers can understand women through the necklace. The image of the protagonist is clear at a glance.

This way of writing is much smarter than simply describing the protagonist's appearance and telling readers from the perspective of God what the character's image and personality are.

【She has a rich friend, a female classmate in a church girls' school, but now she no longer wants to see her, because she always feels pain when she comes back after seeing it.

And so she was sad, regretful, disappointed and apprehensive, until one evening her husband returned triumphantly, with a large envelope in his hand.

"Look," he said, "this is for you."

She hurriedly opened the envelope, and took out an invitation card with this sentence printed on it:
"The Minister of Education, Georges Lambernot and his wife, have the honor to invite Mr. and Mrs. Loisel to a party on Monday, January [-]th, in the headquarters building."

Her husband thought she would be happy, but she threw the invitation on the table with a sad and angry look, and said coldly, "What do you want me to do with this thing?"

"Well, my dear, I think you'll probably be happy. You never go out, and this is another chance, this thing, a good chance. It took me so much trouble to get it. Everyone wants invitations, it's great. It is rare to get, but there are not many people to share, and celebrities in the political circle can be seen at the banquet."

She looked at him with furious eyes, and then she cried out impatiently: "What do you want me to wear there?"

He hadn't thought of this layer before, and said falteringly, "Well, you can wear that dress from the theater. I think it's very good, I..."

Seeing his wife weeping, he fell silent, surprised and bewildered.Two big tears flowed slowly from the corner of her eyes to the corner of her mouth, and he said, "What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?"】

On the sofa, Lu Anjing sat cross-legged, not caring about her image at all. On the coffee table were small cakes that her mother Murong Yue had just baked and homemade black tea.

"Men and women are indeed two kinds of creatures. Without beautiful clothes, how can you save face at a banquet?"

Lu Anjing's words can be regarded as expressing the feelings of most girls and heroines.

The heroine likes to show off, she likes to be the most dazzling star at the ball, but she is not Cinderella, she doesn't have crystal slippers, and she doesn't have the help of a witch.

If she really asked her to wear Cinderella's costume to the banquet, it would not be showing off but a joke.

"What's wrong?" Murong Yue came over with black tea and saw her daughter muttering non-stop.

Lu Anjing said without raising her head: "It's nothing, I'm reading a new novel written by Swordsman."

"Oh? The third track has opened, right?"

"What's the topic of the third track?" Murong Yue asked curiously as she leaned over her head.

Lu Jingjing put down the tablet and explained: "It's the price. The sword god wrote a story about the necklace."

"Let's read together." Murong Yue sat down next to her daughter, and read with her daughter with great interest.

They saw that the hostess took great pains to dress herself up, so they borrowed a necklace for this, and they also saw the hostess showing off at the ball.

Everything seems to be going well.

until--

[She took off those cloaks around her shoulders in front of the mirror, wanting to take a closer look at her incomparably glorious self.

But suddenly she let out a wild cry.She no longer had the diamond necklace around her neck.

Her husband had already taken off half of his clothes at this time, and asked quickly, "How are you doing?"

She turned to him madly: "I've... I've... I can't find Mrs. Fleisger's necklace now."

He stood up flusteredly: "What...how...how can such a thing happen."

So they searched in the folds of the dress robe, the folds of the cloak, and the pockets.Can't find it anywhere.

He asked, "Can you guarantee that you'll leave the prom with that thing on?"

"Yes, I touched it in the halls of the Ministry."

"However, if you lose it on the road, we can hear it go down. It should be in the car."

"Yes. It is possible. Have you taken down the number of the car?"

"No. What about you, didn't you pay attention at the beginning?"

"No."

They stared at each other dumbfounded.In the end, Luo Saier put on her clothes again...]

Both Lu Anjing and Murong Yue's hearts were in their throats. No one expected that the heroine's vanity, after a highlight moment at a ball, lost the necklace that helped him and her...

The two tried various ways to raise money, and for this they spent the rest of their lives as a price.

ten years.

It took ten years of frugality to finally pay off this foreign debt.

And when the heroine, who was so radiant in the past, saw the wife who kindly lent her the necklace again, the wife could no longer recognize the emaciated heroine.

"Sigh, vanity is not worth it. The price is too heavy." Murong Yue lamented.

"Yes." Lu Anjing felt the same way. She is also a girl who loves beauty, but it is hard to imagine that a highlight moment will take the rest of her life to repay.

If that's the price...

That price is too heavy.

["Oh. Poor Mathilde, you have really changed."

"Yes, I've had a lot of hard times since I last saw you; and it's all because of you. . . . "

"For me... what's going on here?"

"In the past, you lent me a string of diamond necklaces to attend the party in the ministry. Now, do you remember?"

"Remember, how?"

"What, I lost that bunch of things."

"Where is it, you have already returned it to me."

"What I gave you back was another string that was exactly the same. It took us ten years to pay for it. Like us who have nothing, you know it's not easy... Now that the bill has been paid off, I am solidly satisfied."

Mrs. Fleisger stopped in her tracks: "Did you say that you bought a necklace of diamonds and diamonds to make up for my necklace?"

"Yeah, you hardly noticed it before, did you? Those two strings were exactly the same." And she smiled with a burst of self-important and innocent joy. 】

It took ten years to pay off the price... If it was just like this, it might fit the theme, but the two of them looked at each other, feeling that something was missing.

What is missing?

"Is there no reversal?" Lu Anjing asked suspiciously.

Indeed, this novel has a good idea and beautiful writing, and the story is also very good, but it lacks the surprise that makes people tremble, and the relief that makes people sigh.

In short - so far this novel lacks surprises.

"It's not easy to write a short story within three days." Murong Yue explained, "And this novel isn't bad, is it?"

"Maybe." Lu Anjing muttered and swiped to the next page of the tablet.

[Mrs. Fleisger was very moved, and grabbed her two hands: "Oh, poor Mathilde, but my string is fake, and it is worth five hundred francs at most."]

The atmosphere in the living room was silent for a long time, and the mother and daughter, who had recalled it, both smiled wryly when they saw the last line.

"I got goosebumps."

"This last reversal made the idea of ​​this necklace go up."

"Necklace" completely detonated the entire Internet, triggering a new round of frenzy of public opinion.

(End of this chapter)